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Science
A 3.2 Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?
I stopped climbing decades ago. It makes me uncomfortable.
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Magazine
Traveling Alone, With Help
From Las Vegas to Los Angeles, thanks to several strangers.Most people are kind but nervous.
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Science
James Cronin, Who Explained Why Matter Survived the Big Bang, Dies at 84
Dr. Cronin shared a Nobel Prize for discovering, with Val Fitch, “a fundamental asymmetry between matter and antimatter,” repudiating a basic principle of physics.I did not know him.
"Dr. Cronin became a professor emeritus in 1997."
He retired at 64.
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Man Recalls 2013 Beating and His Pleas for Help
“I was kicked in the face. I was dragged,” Taj Patterson, who says he was beaten by a group of Hasidic Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood, testified in State Supreme Court.I believe he was assaulted.
I have had no special trouble with the Hasidim.
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U.S.
Aimed at Zika Mosquitoes, Spray Kills Millions of Honeybees
Officials in Dorchester County, S.C., neglected to warn beekeepers of a plan to spray pesticide from the air. The results were devastating.Panic prevents thought.
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Books
Attica, Attica: The Story of the Legendary Prison Uprising
Heather Ann Thompson’s “Blood in the Water” is about the Attica prison uprising of 1971, its aftermath, and the continuing quest for justice.Panic prevents thought.
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Opinion
Why Handwriting Is Still Important
Handwriting can be an important tool in the acquisition of reading and writing skills.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia
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Business Day
Beware: That In-Room Coffee Just Might Cost You
Taking their lead from the airlines, hotels and resorts are raising add-on fees to record levels.The depression is growing deeper.
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Fashion & Style
She Didn’t Get a Promotion. Should She Stay or Quit?
Also, how to deal with a fiancé’s bad behavior at a wedding and more.I have no objection to charity that goes to the chosen cause.
I do object when 90+% goes to the campaign for donations.
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Well
Waiting for Cancer
Taking a DNA test for fun, then finding yourself on permanent standby, just waiting for cancer.I am sorry she is suffering.
Sometimes it is better not to know. She does not have cancer. She is tested often.
If she were only tested often she would be much more comfortable.
Ignore the genetics if you can and continue the tests.
There is life to be lived and the prophylactic surgery is worse than the attempted cure.
Up the girls testing and encourage early grandchildren.
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N.Y. / Region
Under New Policy for Homeless Families, Children Can Miss Less School
New York is changing a rule that requires an entire family to be present at the city’s intake center when reapplying to get a spot in a shelter.The city can and should hire more staff.
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Books
Sorry, Mom and Dad: You’re Not So Important After All
In “Do Parents Matter?,” the married anthropologists Robert A. LeVine and Sarah LeVine explain why parenting styles aren’t nearly as important as we imagine.Mental health studies require decades. The baby must grow up.
The study should start now or sooner.
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Sports
Antidoping Authorities From 17 Nations Push for a Series of Reforms
The proposals include prohibiting antidoping employees from having an overlapping leadership role in international sports and increased funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency.The Olympic committee must listen to the antidoping agencies.
The work is far from done.
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Opinion
Closing the Academic Gap
A decrease in the birthrate of lower-income families may be helping to narrow the academic gap between rich and poor.Every bit helps. Nothing helps as much as paid work.
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Opinion
Apple, Congress and the Missing Taxes
The corporation and the United States have only themselves to blame for a record tax penalty in Europe.Governments must pass the laws before the money is earned.
The E.U. has no hope of confiscating Apple's cash.
The E.U. is not sovereign.
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Opinion
Not the Airline Passengers’ Fault
A reader says a new ad campaign by American Airlines wrongly shifts the blame for bad travel experiences from management to passengers.Yes.
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U.S.
Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech
Following is a transcript of the remarks by Donald J. Trump on immigration in Phoenix on Wednesday, as transcribed by the Federal News Service."I tell you it is the unarian among us that are to blame . . ."
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T Magazine
One Antiques Dealer’s Surprisingly Modern English Cottage
Whether restoring furniture, reviving textile arts or piecing together eclectic interiors, Christopher Howe always makes good.I can get close to that.
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World
With Mother Teresa Set to Be Canonized, Her Work Lives On in the Streets
Her Missionaries of Charity religious congregation has continued to grow, serving the poor around the world, and just outside the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.Give to the charity if you wish.
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Business Day
Central Bankers Hear Plea: Turn Focus to Government Spending
At an annual conference of central bankers, experts said that increased government spending, not just low rates, was needed to spur growth.The bankers are correct.
Fiscal stimulation is necessary.
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Well
Contraceptives Drive Teenage Pregnancy Down
The sharp decline in American teenage pregnancy rates in recent years was a result of the increased use of contraceptives, a new study concludes."“These high rates of contraception and low rates of pregnancy are historically unprecedented,” said the lead author, Laura Lindberg, a research scientist with the Guttmacher Institute. “The long-term decline in teen pregnancy and teen births has been brought about by teenagers making considered and responsible decisions.”"
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N.Y. / Region
3 Dead and 10 Hurt in Queens Crash, Police Say
The accident, on the Long Island Expressway, forced the shutdown of lanes of traffic heading toward Manhattan, the authorities said.It happens too often.
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Well
Depression Is Poorly Diagnosed and Often Goes Untreated
About 8.4 percent of Americans interviewed in a study had depression, but of those, only 28.7 percent had received any treatment.Yes.
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N.Y. / Region
Recreation and Commerce Collide on New York’s Crowded Waterways
An accident involving a ferry and kayakers on the Hudson demonstrates the increasing demands on the rivers and other bodies of water around the city.The rules changed twenty years ago.
Big boats carrying passengers for hire are allowed to hit little boats.
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Opinion
When Egypt Goes to the Beach
While the French seaside has become a battleground over the “burkini,” a surprising tolerance rules here.Civil Egypt may survive.
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Business Day
A Plea for Plain English in Financial Documents
Stop writing solely for lawyers and professional investors and start writing so that anyone with an interest will understand.The language is exact if confusing. Learning to read it takes a few weeks.
Learning to understand it takes years.
The authors have no need to change.
Their customers, the brokers, would not buy from them.
Use an index fund.
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World
Suspicions Confirmed: Couple Faked Photographs in Everest Climb
They claimed they were the first Indian couple to ascend the world’s highest peak, but their “proof” consisted of clumsy forgeries, as many climbers had said.Pride.
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Opinion
Georgetown University, Learning From Its Sins
As a historian and a priest, I’m convinced our school must reckon with its historical relationship with slavery.Guilt.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Attorney General Settles Inquiry Into Once-Successful Developer
The investigation of Shaya Boymelgreen, whose business practices in New York City were the subject of scrutiny, began in 2013.Not enough pain.
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Books
Review: ‘The Art of Waiting,’ What to Expect When You’re Still Not Expecting
Belle Boggs’s thoughtful meditation on childlessness, childbearing and the agony in between is a personal tale and a dispeller of myths on infertility.enjoy.
Time is limited.
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U.S.
Georgetown University Plans Steps to Atone for Slave Past
The school, which in 1838 sold 272 slaves, plans to award preferential status in the admissions process to descendants of slaves, among other moves.A bad precedent to some.
A small first step to others.
I hope it is a first step.
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